Tuesday, 10 January 2017

What better way to start the new year than have a whole NEW range of Close To My Heart products available in the new January 2017 Seasonal Expressions Idea book!

I am so excited, on Thursday night (5th January 2017) I attended our first consultant training for 2017, with my CTMH sisters at Hearts SA (yes I know, what a wonderful name for our group as it's all about the Heart and the Love that we share at Close To My Heart). I had my first 'up close and personal' experience with our new papers and products that are available NOW for purchase. I was amazed by all the gorgeous scrap booking layouts, cards, gift boxes, wreaths and many more items that my 'Sisters' have lovingly designed or replicated using 'Sugar Rush', one of the new papers that is available for a limited time from January through to April 2017.

The are so many new products that I love, but here a few of my favourites:

Beginner Scrapbooking Kits

We now have two new Scrapbooking kits for BEGINNERS, the new Cut Above™ layout kitshave been designed to make it easier for those who are new to scrapbookingto start their memory keeping journey with ease.

Cut Above™ Layout Kit—Forever & Always

Item Number: Z3319

For those of you who like to get down and 'Funky' putting together your own 'Traditional' scrapbooking layouts, you will have the materials to make a 2-page layout, including numerous stickers, die-cuts, photo placeholders and Memory Protectors™!

Also included in these wonderful kits are a coordinating pocket scrapbooking layout which includes 12 coordinating pocket cards and 2 divided Memory Protectors™ for adding more photos to your very own scrapbooking layout.

Cut Above™ Layout Kit—Little One

Item Number: Z3320

Each kit contains pre-cut pieces and all you have to do is follow the instructions and attach the pieces as shown (or add a your own unique designing touches)!

Why stop there? Want to add some more bling check out the Complements packs:

Sunday, 1 January 2017

I hope everyone had a fantastic time over Christmas and New Years Eve!

The past 22 months have held some very serious health issues for me but now that I am recovering from my numerous operations and am in remission, I am starting to build my CTMH business and just can't wait to get out there and share, share, share.

I had the most amazing time leading up to Christmas. My BFF and fellow Close To My Heart Consultant Allison Bunt and I attended and shared a number of Christmas Markets, where we set up our CTMH stall and showcased some of our wonderful CTMH products and the items that we had handmade/designed for sale.

December was so.o.o.ooo..... busy, first there was the Pop-up Sisters Market (normally held at Goodwood SA) at the Arabesque Belly Dancing Studio at College Park in Adelaide SA, TTG Gymsports, 2 day/night markets in Lobethal SA for the LOBETHAL LIGHTs and lastly the SA Earthwellness Market at Blackwood SA (this one I found and booked all myself - so I am very pleased).

Our first night at the 'Lobethal Lights' markets - after setting up our stall of gorgeous items we were so pleased with how good the tables looked we just had to snap some photos, what do you think?

Table 2

Both Allison and I worked for many hours over a number of weeks to ensure that we had plenty of items of various types, categories and prices to suit many needs as we also had to have abundant goodies for the 5 or so markets that we were displaying and selling our CTMH items at. We had Christmas cards of all types, including several 'Shaker' cards (a Snowman scene and A Woodland Wonderland forest scene), test tubes filled with green & red jelly beans, stocking fillers such as 'Santa coin gifts, gist pack with fancy soaps, bath salts and bath bombs, Christmas Bon Bons (Crackers), Nativity Scenes in a hanging jar (made by Allison) and picture frames. Oh and mustn't forget the wonderful CTMH products such as stamp sets (Stamp of the month) ink pads, shimmer trim, Shimmer brushes, water colour paints, paper and much much more.

Table 1

Of course I had to take some close ups of my 'Snowflake' Page Layouts (taken when my daughter went to Germany in 2013 for her Year 11 German Exchange and was lucky that her host family also took her to their house in Samnaun, Switzerland) at the back & items for sale in front, including a delightful 'Exploding Box ' cards which are very popular.

Coming up in January and February we have several workshops, they are for the full day but you get to make two page layout for scrap booking some of your photos and then onto assembling a beautiful card using the current 'Stamp of the Month', the rest of the day can be spent in designing your own layouts, making cards and crafting, crafting and more crafting.

If you would like to join me at a Workshop, they will be held at the following locations in Jan/Feb 2017, please contact me for further details/bookings:

21 January, 2017 Saturday Summer Workshop

$35.00 Booking fee (payment Essential)

Fellowship Centre

Sunnybrook Drive

Wynn Vale

RSVP: 05
January 2017

Pymt: 07
January 2017

26 February, 2017 Sunday CTMH
Customer Fun Day

$30.00 Booking fee (payment Essential)

The Stables Ballroom

The Junction Hotel

470Anzac Hwy

Camden Pk

RSVP: 12
January 2017

Pymt: 14
January 2017

N.B.
Booking and payment is essential to ensure your seat is arranged and your paper
pack is ordered and delivered for these workshops.

In mid February I will be having a Workshop to make an 'Exploding Box card', details are yet to be refined but I will post asap. Here are some of the cards I have made and are an example of what we will make on the day:

At first the box looks like a beautiful present, however when opened it 'explodes' and the sides spring open displaying wonderful little surprises. In this card I was telling a story about 'Rudolph and the missing Reindeer'. I was extremely pleased how it turned out.

This was my first Christmas Box card, using a different layout to ones I has previously made and I was lucky enough to attend my first CTMH Convention last year which was held in Adelaide in October 2016 where I presented the above card along with other designs and page layouts at our Showcase.

And of course I couldn't stop at one, I then went on to make others (below), but had to make them all different of course.

This beautiful 'Exploding Box'Card was made for my wonderful friend Allison for her birthday in August last year. Allison has a passion for her garden and everything POPPY, so of course I had to make a special card that used our gorgeous Close To My Heart papers, ribbons and stamps.

I was so pleased that she loved it and now makes her own box cards to sell at markets.

I have enjoyed sharing my first Blog with you all and hope that you enjoyed it too. I am new to blogging so I know that I will get better as time passes and I post more blogs. Keep reading and sharing with other and I would love followers.

Well I am signing off now but I will be back soon to share some more exciting news!

About Me

I love my Paper Crafting and I have discovered my true creativity is in stamping, card making and scrapbooking and anyone who KNOWS me knows that I love to add BLING and bring GLITZ to my creations. I enjoy introducing others to Close to My Heart and our wonderful range of versatile products, so they too can find their creative side. Join me in feeling successful in your crafting.
'Creating a beautiful work of art isn't hard when you are working with the wonderful products from Close To My Heart!'

http://cherylthomas.closetomyheart.com.au/

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Close To My Heart is the “Let Me Show You How™” company. From easy-to-follow patterns in our how-to books to coordinated embellishments for fast and gorgeous pages, we can show you how to discover your creativity and celebrate relationships—with handmade projects from the heart!

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